school shooting in iowa. we re told to prepare for police to give an update. their very first moments away. if you look at the left side of your screen, you can see the microphone bank there. you see officials gathering. as soon as they walk up to those micks i ll go there right away and take it life. this is perry high school in perry, iowa. police have confirmed reports of an active shooter at that high school. just so you know the location, it s about 25 miles northwest of the capital of iowa, des moines. today is the first day back at school following the school district s winter break. no confirmed casualties yet. you may hear otherwise. we want to wait and get that firmed up. perhaps momentarily from the officials that you see in the distance there on your screen. as always with breaking news, the situation is in flux. we want to try to get that confirmation if anybody has been killed or hurt directly from the officers. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner f
gas prices under president biden. the peak more than $5 per gallon. it has been a tough run and continues to be for americans. the white house, though, insists that this trip goes far beyond oil. to a host of other national security issues. critics say the real objective of president biden s trip is to try to convince the world s largest exporter of oil to ramp up production to drive down those prices for us. while americans are suffering from high gas prices and crippling inflation, he goes there. i ve said he is begging for oil. others call it something else like the white house says they are trying to have energy security, okay. house minority leader kevin mccarthy calling out the president. let s be honest. the only reason president biden is going to saudi arabia is to beg for them to produce more oil. he travels all the way to saudi arabia to beg them to go against everything he said in the campaign simply because his policies from day one have denied america to be ene
Now be bold. Throw a little obamacare into the mix, why not . We expect to see some action this afternoon in the Senate Finance committee as members work on their tax package, supporters are noting there is nonpartisan analysis saying the middle class would benefit from their tax package. To Mitch Mcconnells point, every group gets tax relief here. The differences that the burden of Taxation Shifts so that those at the top and are going to pay a little bit more of the burden and those in the middle class are going to pay less of the burden. Bob corker of tennessee, jeff flake of arizona have expressed concerns about the nations debt. G. O. P. Leaders will need to assure them that this tax package wont blow a hole in the deficit. Some key republicans a tax reform would bring in more revenue by bringing jobs and investment back to the u. S. Meanwhile, democrats are taking aim. Ive never seen a more blatant attempt at a corporate welfare bill than this bill. They are literally taking mone
It does not get into 16. He only managed for about four months in the summer of 2016. Harris why do you think bob mueller is perched . For the reasons that this judge has said, what you only one Paul Manafort, you are only squeezing him, the judges phrase, they do not speak this way from the bench. Harris this judge has been very candid. Very colorful, you are only squeezing Paul Manafort because he want him to testify against the president. The response to that is we are lawyers and we have ethical duties. We are prosecutors. If we find evidence of crimes, we must pursue that criminality whether it is our original mission or not, that is a truthful statement of the obligation, they can pursue it themselves or pass it on and have their pursuit. Harris you are judge looking at this case, how much time could Paul Manafort face . Thats where the pressure comes in, right . He could be convicted to 60
years in jail, exposed to more, but thats what it will come down to if he is convicted of
republican primary in new hampshire has been 40%. so we ll see if it actually is a rising number of people who call themselves independents and show up. it is a lot of democrats way past the deadline of being able to switch and vote in the republican primary. we ll see how it turns out. he is welcome to do that. for a while governor christie had some momentum as being the non-trump candidate. by definition you are a non-trump candidate if you are running this time. i have think governor christie and donald trump had a 20-year friendship. i hate to see that disappear because of politics. and like i said for me personally i worked very closely with both of them. governor christie did a great job as the commissioner of the president s commission on opioids and drugs, a great job. you see him in the rose garden for barrett. helping with the debate prep. it went long after 2016.